laužas

Lithuanian

Etymology

Cognate with Latvian laûzs (“place in a forest with broken/uprooted trees”).

From the stem of láužti (“to break”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewǵ- (“to break”).

Noun

láužas m (plural laužaĩ) stress pattern 3

  1. pile of sticks
    Hypernym: krūva (“heap, pile”)
  2. bonfire
    Hypernym: ugnis (“fire”)
  3. bear den
    Hypernym: guolis (“den, lair”)
  4. pile of scrap, trash
    Hypernym: krūva (“heap, pile”)
  5. broken branch
    Hypernym: šaka (“branch”)

Declension
Declension of láužas
singular (vienaskaita) plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas) láužas laužaĩ
genitive (kilmininkas) láužo laužų̃
dative (naudininkas) láužui laužáms
accusative (galininkas) láužą láužus
instrumental (įnagininkas) láužu laužaĩs
locative (vietininkas) laužè laužuosè
vocative (šauksmininkas) láuže laužaĩ

Further reading
  • “laužas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
  • Derksen, Rick (2015) “laužas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 276
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